Introducing our first tight, high torque oil and gas junior to the portfolio

After a months long hunt for the perfect junior stock pick in oil and gas, I present a setup which is difficult to ignore.

Why I’m Moving on Oil & Gas Speculation Now

Oil discovery peaked in the 1960s.

Supermajors are producing more than they are finding, and years of underinvestment are biting just as new superbasins move into the spotlight.

Junior Mining Pro will remain focused on minerals and metals exploration names. That’s my core competency and where most of our capital will stay deployed.

But every so often, the market serves up a setup in another corner of the natural‑resources world that looks too important to ignore.

As Rick Rule likes to say, “You’re either a contrarian or a victim. The energy transition narrative pulled capital out of oil and gas just as depletion kept grinding on. Global oil production declines 5–7% per year without continuous reinvestment. We stopped investing. We did not stop consuming.”

The oil and gas sector has spent the better part of a decade out of favour, underperforming the S&P 500 in most of the last ten years, delivering the lowest returns and highest volatility of any major sector, and seeing capital expenditures fall sharply after 2015 as climate policy and ESG mandates diverted money elsewhere.

My strategy has always been to look for high‑torque deals in “hated” environments or in cycles that are just starting to turn.

This, in my view, the right moment to introduce a single, tightly defined oil and gas speculation to the portfolio.

It’s led by oil and gas veterans intimate with the district, has an ex-senior government official on its board of directors, it’s cashed up and has constructed a high torque leveraged setup.

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